boring general tracking post

Just a few things to note down, mostly for my own tracking purposes.

I've been writing every day this week, mixed progress.  Novel is moving forward and I have hit some very good patches of focused concentration, which in a way is more significant than the external markers insofar as my confidence goes.  Yet I have this sort of restless mental overcharge after writing, and I don't quite know what to do with myself.

I didn't get any martial arts in this week due to a minor neck injury, but I have been doing other general fitness training and I'll get two fight training sessions in next week if I possibly can.

Tyrone and I watched the first episode of 'Wonders of the Universe' last night.  It was so depressing!  I felt bad watching it with him.  Too much 'heat death of the universe' for a nine-year-old. He took it OK, though.

I also, in my great devious cleverness, blew Steve's mind last weekend when I downloaded a DungeonMaster emulator and got Tyrone playing it.  Steve walked in Saturday night after a long train journey and saw it on the screen and I wish I could have captured his face.  It was a mixture of 'stunned' and 'a miracle has occurred'.  I even found Steve's old game manual that I saved in a file when we left Horsham, with all his notes and potion recipes.  (Yes, I lost all my books and book contracts but saved Steve's Dungeon Master files.  My priorities were a little messed up). He was hardcore into DungeonMaster and used to call up the cheats line and tell them tricks for parts of the game they didn't even know about. In overall personality, Tyrone takes after me far more than Steve, so this is becoming a wonderful bonding opportunity for the two of them.

Happy weekend!  I'll be cleaning and doing math...